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Originally Posted by Kelly Pedersen
This, though, I'd disagree on. All of these are certainly common to stories I'd categorize as "Space Opera", but they aren't universal. Even FTL isn't necessary - the TV show "Firefly", and particularly its movie, "Serenity", is pretty firmly Space Opera to me, but that setting doesn't seem to have FTL travel, it's all confined to a single (implausibly huge and crowded with habitable planets) solar system.
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That would be the exception that proves the rule then- either you need FTL, or you need to substitute it with a more implausibly crowded setting to compensate.